MrProject vs. "Planner"

[Mike A. Harris]

On Tue, 23 Mar 2004, Dimitrios wrote:

>> If anyone knows for sure on 
>> > this maybe MrProject should be replaced with Planner in rawhide?
>> 
>> Yes. That is the plan. We haven't gotten to it yet though.
>
>That is correct. MrProject was replaced by Planner. Essentialy its the
>same project, but the authors had to change its name at some point
>when, i think, they moved from one job to another.
>
>Probably their old job claimed "MrProject" was copyrighted under their
>own company because the project was developed while they worked for them.

IANAL, but to the best of my knowledge, you can not copyright the 
name of a piece of software, although you can trademark it.  I 
don't know if that particular piece of software's name is 
trademarked however, and well...   IANAL.  ;o)


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